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  • NIOSH
    OFR-102-82 Development And Testing Of Self-Drilling Roof Bolts

    By F. S. Kendorski

    This report presents the results of a search for viable-self-drilling roof bolt concepts, detailed development, design, and manufacture of such bolts that drill their own holes, and testing in the lab

    Jan 1, 1979

  • NIOSH
    Physical Limitations and Musculoskeletal Complaints Associated With Work in Unusual or Restricted Postures: A Literature Review - Introduction.

    By Sean Gallagher

    The vast majority of ergonomics research has addressed the demands of work in standing or sitting postures, and understandably so. However, many workers (for example, underground miners, aircraft bagg

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Decision Support System For Underground Construction - A Mining Case Study

    By Robert M. Miller, Judy Milligan

    A computerized "Decision Support System" was used to evaluate an "Underground Platform Approach to Oil Recovery". Over a billion calculations were required to model the mine layouts; learning curves f

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SAIMM
    A study on the partially saturated mechanical behavior of iron ore of Lorraine (France)

    By D. Grgic, A. Giraud, F. Homand

    RESUME : Le comportement mécanique partiellement saturé du minerai de fer a été étudié à partir d’essais de compression simple sur des éprouvettes à pression capillaire imposée par les solutions salin

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Selective Froth Recovery (SFR) System To Increase Flotation Recovery

    The SFR system utilizes a skimmer or extractor placed at or near the slurry-froth interface where there is a higher concentration of valuable mineral particles. With assistance of hydrocyclones, it is

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Economics of electric power may make cogeneration a major future power source

    By Earl Rau

    Introduction Will cogeneration be a major power source in the future? The location of electric power generating plants has changed. In 1900, more than 50% of electricity was generated by industria

    Jan 7, 1987

  • NIOSH
    RI 8530 Assessing the Methane Hazard of Gassy Coals in Storage Silos

    By John C. LaScola

    The Bureau of Mines investigated coal storage silos to determine how gassy coal must be for methane accumulations in a silo to become hazardous and where such accumulations are likely to occur. Methan

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SAIMM
    How fine particles on haematite mineral ultimately define the mineral surface charge and the overall floatability behaviour - Synopsis

    By S. Montes

    Mineral floatability is strongly connected with mineral structure and composition. The complexity of mineral surfaces has meant that few attempts have been made to understand the effect of impurities

    Jan 1, 2007

  • NIOSH
    The Mineral Industry Of Alabama (104a35c0-c1e2-4e50-bda2-a1e778f1c45b)

    By Avery H. Reed

    RECORD production of marble, kaolin, scrap mica, and talc high-lighted the mineral industry of Alabama in 1962. Among the States, Alabama ranked second in scrap mica, third in the production of bauxit

    Jan 1, 1963

  • AIME
    Technical Notes - A Centrifuge Core Cleaner

    By David B. Burrows, Francis R. Conley

    INTRODUCTION A prerequisite to the evaluation and management of oil properties is accurate information derived from the analysis of core samples; but reliable data, such as porosity and permeabilit

    Jan 1, 1957

  • NIOSH
    Evaluation Of The Capability Of Seat Suspension To Reduce The Operator Exposure To Vibration In Track Type Tractors. - Introduction

    By Michael S. Contratto, Dave Marshall, Tom Brodersen

    The European Union (EU) completed a new directive 2002/44/EC1 called the Physical Agents Directive (PAD) that establishes action and limit values for hand-arm and whole body vibrations. The directive

    Jan 6, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Bacterial Leaching of Complex Polymetallic Sulfide Ore

    Bacterial Leaching of Complex Polymetallic Sulfide Ore The work described here concerned the study on bacterial leaching of complex sulfide minerals and polymetallic ores operated in shaken flasks an

    Sep 13, 2010

  • CIM
    Mocca: A Grinding Circuit Control Application

    By C. Larsen, D. Fragomeni, A. Vien, D. G. Fisher

    "MOCCA is a Multivariable Optimal Constrained Control Algorithm developed specifically for non-square industrial control applications with practical difficulties such as interactions, time delays, con

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Despite industry woes, 2016 is a big year for the mining equipment sector

    By William Gleason

    "Sluggish prices for commodities and a glut of oversupply of many commodities did not stop the world’s largest mining equipment makers from showing off their latest and greatest machines and technolog

    Jun 1, 2016

  • SME
    Use Of Available And Emerging Methods For Location Of Air And Water Filled Cavities In Mines – Status Report On MSHA Demonstration Projects

    By Kelvin K. Wu, George H. Gardner

    On July 24, 2002, a nonfatal entrapment accident occurred at the Quecreek #1 Mine, Black Wolf Coal Company, when an active mining section inadvertently cut into a flooded abandoned mine. This inciden

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Geologic Coal Assessment: The Interface With Economics

    By E. D. Attanasi

    Geologic resource assessments describe the location, general characteristics, and estimated volumes of resources, whether in-situ or technically recoverable. Such compilations are only an initial ste

    Jan 1, 2001

  • CIM
    Participative Management at the Golden Giant Mill, A Co-Ordinators Perspective

    By K. Barr, F. Grenier, J. Hettinger

    "To reach the Hemlo Gold Inc. objective of becoming the lowest cost, safest Canadian gold producer while causing no environmental damage, management embarked from its inception on a strategy to build

    Jan 1, 1988

  • NIOSH
    Mineral Resources Of The Seven Blackfoot Study Area, Garfield County, Montana ? Summary

    By Michael S. Miller

    In 1984, at the request of Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Mines studied 8,500 acres of the 20,250-acre Seven Blackfoot Wilderness Study Area (WSA) consisting of all 3,950 acres of MT-024-657

    Jan 1, 1986

  • AUSIMM
    Hydraulic Handling in Mining Fully Automatic Large-Scale Test Unit on a Practical Scale

    The process of hydraulic transport through pipelines, worldwide well known for the transport of fine-grain solids is also being used to a greater extent in mining for the handling of primarily coarse-

    Jan 1, 1980

  • IIMP
    Estrategias competitivas para el desarrollo sostenido de Sociedad Minera El brocal S. A

    By William Escudero

    El presente trabajo describe el planeamiento estratégico para el sostenimiento de la sociedad minera El Brocal a través de la gestión en el trabajo organizacional. Su principal objetivo es aumentar la

    Sep 13, 2001